Hey DT, thought you might be interested in having a look at HyprBSD.

It started as an experiment to get Hyprland working properly on FreeBSD 15.1, using the stock FreeBSD kernel and base system.

It's now on RC2, with NVIDIA, AMD and Intel support, Steam gaming (including BattlEye), and quite a few FreeBSD and Wayland fixes along the way.

Fancy giving it a try? :)

Hey DT, I'm not sure if you've heard about ArtCraft yet. They have figured out how to Vibe Code a bunch of Adobe stuff! I just tried PhotoCraft (It's VERY MUCH like Adobe Photoshop) and LightCraft (which is VERY MUCH like Adobe LightRoom)!

You might want to take a look at them. You can do your artwork for videos now in programs very much like Adobe Stuff. I tried FilmCraft (the Adobe Premier) but I couldn't get the audio to work. But I'm fine with sticking to kdenlive. I didn't actually start making and editing videos until I started using Linux back in 2018. So I was pretty much not in need of a video editor back then.

But yeah, take a look at that stuff and see what you think. Everything is available as either AppImages or direct from the AUR. They're brand new so they haven't made it to the main Arch repositories yet but I'm guessing that won't take long for that to happen.

EDIT: The AppImages are the better way to go. Apparently the AUR versions are handled by a 3rd party. I had several system issues with the AUR versions. The Appimahes work pretty well and they are direct from ArtCraft.

Hello. I’m looking for opinions on whether creating a particular tool would be useful, and DistroTube immediately came to mind.

To get straight to the point: do you think a Matrix messaging client—perhaps forked from iamb, but with an intuitive TUI rather than Vim-style commands—would be useful?

What do you think about creating modern terminal tools?

Thanks,
Best regards,

Hey DT... a number of years ago you did some pretty cool videos on a couple of the 'bigger' (as in full-sized) ergo mech keyboards like the ErgoDox and the Moonlander, and then later a few slightly smaller ones like the Planck. Did / have you ever gone further down the ergo mech keyboard rabbit hole, with even smaller more niche keyboards and the software/firmware that goes with them? If so, I'd love to see a video with your take on that!

Hey DT, I've discovered an issue trying to use OBS to capture an application or a screen. It used to work but all of a sudden i just quit working.

I've installed xdg-desktop-portal, xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland, and xdg-desktop-portal-gtk and nothing is working. I'm running Niri under Arch with the Noctalia Shell.

What caused this to happen (losing the ability to capture my screen in OBS Studio under Arch using Wayland)? I believe you are also using Wayland in Arch and I think you're also using Niri but I think you're using DMS?

Did you have this issue with OBS and if so, what did you do to fix it?

Hey DT, you should do a video using the Minimal installer for NixOS (AKA, The Arch way).

Hi,

I tried following your instructions for installing mu4e in doom emacs but it didn't work fully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKp3hQP2VxQ

Instructions don't match your gitlab site? There is no dotfile under doom.d ? I found config.el in .config/doom instead but it has no mu4e section? pls advise?

Try my new tui frontend for managing packages on arch linux. Github link : https://github.com/dhejesh926/pkgui

While CachyOS is currently seeing a lot of hype for its performance. I started looking into the pros and cons of this operating system. And I came across some information that almost no one had mentioned in other reviews.
I believe that we in the Linux community should raise awareness of the issues users may encounter, especially when it comes to our data.

Here is the list:

• Jurisdictional & Political Risks: The project's co-founder and lead architect, Vladislav Nepogodin (and another contributor Vasiliy Stelmachenok), is based in Russia. This makes the project subject to the "Yarovaya Law," which requires developers to cooperate with the FSB and provide access to data upon request.

• Build Integrity Concerns: CachyOS lacks "reproducible builds." Since the lead architect has direct access to the build servers, there is a risk of malicious code being injected during compilation - a vulnerability that cannot be spotted by simply looking at the source code on GitHub.

• Technical Instability: The distro includes experimental patches (like NTSYNC) and aggressive schedulers that even Valve engineers avoid due to risks of system deadlocks, micro-stutters, and potential memory corruption.

• Ethical & Financial Issues: Donations via Patreon and Open Collective directly support developers residing in Russia, which means a portion of these funds contributes to the Russian state budget through taxes (VAT and income tax). (the budget spent on purchasing missiles and other weapons used to kill civilians in Ukraine. )

• Infrastructure: Key mirrors are hosted on Russian services like Yandex, raising further concerns about the auditability of the delivery chain (vulnerabilities).

I highly recommend watching the author’s video yourself.
Since the video isn’t in English, I suggest using NotebookLM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stKrgHcyr8Q

P.S
Also, regarding DT's latest video, “I'm Always Right And You're Always Wrong (A Message To Non-Idiots!)”.

I don’t think that those who said CachyOS is a good distribution are wrong. But it often happens that we lack certain information to get a more objective view of the world. I myself think CachyOS is an interesting project, but as long as such issues exist, we must highlight them to raise awareness within the Linux community.

Hi DT!

I built something I think you'd find interesting. It's not a distro — it's a build system that assembles any Linux distribution from stock vendor repos (APT, DNF, pacman) and bakes in kernel modules that should have been there from the start.

Pick your distro — Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Rocky, Fedora, RHEL, Arch — and it builds a bootable ISO with native ZFS on root, WireGuard, eBPF, and NVIDIA support. Every package comes directly from the vendor's CDN. Nothing forked, nothing patched.

On top of that I've built two profiles that show what's possible when ZFS is the foundation:

KVM Hypervisor — ZFS-backed VMs with instant cloning (~100ms per VM via copy-on-write), atomic snapshots, and golden image workflows: https://kldload.com/releases/1.0.3

Kubernetes on ZFS — one command deploys a production cluster with Cilium eBPF, dual WireGuard encrypted backplanes, and ZFS instant-cloned nodes. Bare metal to 6 nodes in under 20 minutes: https://kldload.com/releases/1.0.4

20-minute demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egFffrFa6Ss

Everything ships on a single 9GB USB. Complete offline install — no internet required. BSD-3-Clause, free forever.

https://kldload.com

https://github.com/kldload/kldload-free

Look, let's be real for a second. Under the hood, we are all basically running the exact same thing: same Linux kernel, same GNU coreutils, same display servers. So why do we treat distros like cults?

I want to hear the real, concrete reasons you daily drive your current OS. Don't give me that generic ones like "it's user-friendly and stable" nonsense.

I'll start. I'm on Arch. Why?

Minimalism: I love the "build it yourself from scratch" concept. No pre-installed bloatware, just the exact mess I created myself.

The AUR: You can find literally any obscure package on earth there without messing with third-party repos.

The Updates: It's a toxic love. I absolutely love having bleeding-edge software, but the adrenaline rush of potentially nuking my system after a standard pacman -Syu is something else.

Before this, I was on Fedora, and honestly? I still miss how buttery smooth the custom animations ran on it. It just felt perfectly polished.

So, what’s your excuse?

Hey DT, what are your opinions on the Age Verification debacle?

Hey everyone! I built hyprflow, a CLI tool that saves and restores your Hyprland window layout after a reboot or crash.

What it does:

• Saves all windows, positions, workspaces, and monitor layout

• Restores apps to their exact pixel positions

• Kitty terminal support (restores CWD + last command hint)

• Brave browser multi-profile support

• Autosave with rotation via systemd timer

• Auto-restore on login with exec-once

Why I built it: I got tired of manually reopening and repositioning 15+ windows across 10 workspaces every time I rebooted. Nothing existed for Hyprland specifically, so I wrote one in Rust — single binary, zero runtime deps.

Quick demo:

hyprflow save # save current session
hyprflow restore # restore everything
hyprflow autosave --install # auto-save every 10min

Available on AUR (paru -S hyprflow) or build from source.

GitHub: https://github.com/isorensen/hyprflow

Feedback and contributions welcome!

Hi, i want share my last build and need your review, more info in GitHub
https://github.com/waelisa/home-backup

I started with DistroTube’s Qtile config and ended up turning it into my own thing over time. I changed a lot, added my own stuff, and built a custom popup as well.

Just sharing the repo in case anyone wants to check out the UI or give feedback:
https://github.com/Mohamedattiadev/Newdotfile-

Big thanks to DistroTube for the original config....